“Remembering that I’ll be dead soon is the most important tool I’ve ever encountered to help me make the big choices in life. Because almost everything – all external expectations, all pride, all fear of embarrassment or failure – these things just fall away in the face of death, leaving only what is truly important.” ~Steve Jobs

“It’s not hard to make decisions when you know what your values are.” ~Roy Disney

“Love is a choice. Total forgiveness is a choice. It is not a feeling-at least at first-but is rather an act of the will. It is the choice to tear up the record of wrongs we have been keeping.” ~Total Forgiveness by R. T. Kendall

“Acceptance means focusing on the present while assessing the choices available to you in this moment. If there are many possibilities, make the choice that is likely to bring the most evolutionary results. If there is only one choice, take it. If there are no obvious choices, relax and accept the fact that for now, you cannot do anything.” ~The Ten Commitments: Translating Good Intentions into Great Choices by David Simon

“We have to choose between what is right, and what is easy.” ~J.K. Rowling

“Life’s all about making choices. You’ve made the choice to pick up the pieces and keep going, even when you’ve been devastated over and over again.” ~More by Heidi Marshall

“When you have to make a choice and don’t make it, that is in itself a choice.” ~William James

“I don’t believe we own our children, they’re their own souls who make their own choices, we just guide and support them.” ~Elle Macpherson

“When we speak of choice, what we mean is the ability to exercise control over ourselves and our environment. In order to choose, we must first perceive that control is possible.” ~The Art of Choosing by Sheena Iyengar

“When we’re surrounded by things that look impossible, making a simple choice to do something that’s possible is a powerful thing to do.” ~Choices by Melody Beattie

“Life is partly what we make it, and partly what it is made by the friends we choose.” ~Tennessee Williams

“Sometimes we miss happy because we’re always looking for something else. We worry, we give in to fear, we compare ourselves to others, we’re planning and plotting, but happiness is here, it’s a choice, day to day.” ~The First Day of the Rest of My Life by Cathy Lamb

You and I are essentially infinite choice-makers. In every moment of our existence, we are in that field of all possibilities where we have access to an infinity of choices.” ~Deepak Chopra

“[S]uccess is ultimately realized by people who make more good choices and recover quickly from their bad choices. Our personal and professional success depends on repeating good choices, day in and day out, and avoiding repetition of bad choices.” ~Monday Morning Choices by David Cottrell

“But rarely have I made choices that made me feel I was really compromising what I believe.” ~Danny Glover

“[R]ecognizing and reclaiming our choices is a prerequisite to changing those choices. And changing our choices is at the heart of changing our lives and relationships.” ~Hurt People Hurt People by Sandra Wilson